I like very much the gradation colours between red and yellow. Can you explain how you took this photograph? Which lighting? It is interesting for all those who want to progress in photographic technique... Thanks!
What I did was I took the shade off of my desk lamp held the leaf up in front of the light and snapped away in macro mode. At first I didn't paticularly like the background (which is why I did the "Cool Leaf"), but now I like it a lot more.
I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar,
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--Lord Byron
Well done! The balance of light and shade, gentle graduating colors and a beautiful subject matter make for a great shot. 10/10 and straight to the desktop it goes. Thanks for sharing your work.
Nice, but for some of us, it's hard to see the leaf well against the background. Like 1/12 men and 1/100 women I have a form of color blindness (mine is red deficiency, meaning of the RGB tones of lightwaves I see less red than I ought to - which brings me to the problem in this image... Brown BG, and brownish/orangey/red-I-guess leaf is hard to see on that BG...) BUT the concept is nice, and the clarity (I dropped it into Photoshop and B/W'd it) is really nice. Also, the luminosity qualities are really pure and well done.